and we are in the omsk region located more than two thousand kilometers from moscow the main city which shares the name briefly became russia's capital after the one nine hundred seventy revolution it also held the imperial gold reserves but it's got a checkered reputation a stone barton discovers. two things in particular it is famous for those are the fate of exiles sent here by the czarist regime along a difficult and dangerous road to get here and prison and forced labor once they arrived the other is a rich military to dish and the city has a military academy established here two hundred years ago has provided very famous officers and generals for the russian and the red army and it's those themes of examining. on the march under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia that will get it succumbs years to go there is some ways winces in tell us a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living

to pass tough exams to get in here for those that do it's a very different school to the others in omsk. book it's strange to be away from home unusual but when you get used to it who feels like home. military personalities are dotted throughout history this is he served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral kolchak in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained to boo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel. it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of our history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an admiral. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long

winterreise in say yes a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered their living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it. when you come to the track you can vividly picture the convicts on their walk and hear the clinking of their chains you can smell russian history here. you have going to discover that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reenact has now received as it has from all over the world to show them what it was like with these bodies it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember history we will have no future. it's a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. yet it was. one of the more notable traditions and also because military professionalism practiced here at the city's cadets college for nearly two hundred years the. year what was an officer school now gives boys a general education but with the military emphasis.

this week artie's close-up team is in the omsk region which is in southwest siberia in the second part of the series we take a look at how locals live there and learn about their customs and traditions our very own a tour guide in the region tom patton shows us how people survive the cold and also what they do for entertainment. excepting soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend that frontier both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture but i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. let's. see media they start teaching us riding on which in servant to trickle at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities and as for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got to go after him and the others have a demanding daily schedul

the region has a continental climate with cold snowy winters and hard drive summers the main city omsk is the administrative center for siberian cossacks who settled there in the sixteenth century to embark explores the military my of the martial people. excepting soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend that front both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture but i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks beer but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. much now similarly if they start teaching us friday when we turn servant into trickle at the age of thirteen the billion chance abilities are as for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber got to go after aman the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part of the youngsters in the village built this gym the